Comments on: JBoss (and possibly TomCat) should never have happened.

By: Its Not About Open Source « The Abstract Truth

Its Not About Open Source « The Abstract Truth — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:16:47 +0000

[...] JBoss (and possibly TomCat) should never have happened. [...]

By: Respect your Competitors « The Abstract Truth

Respect your Competitors « The Abstract Truth — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:18:28 +0000

[...] JBoss (and possibly TomCat) should never have happened. [...]

By: rbpasker

rbpasker — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:27:23 +0000

Also, IIRC, a comparative 3-year TCO versus WebLogic showed that WebLogic was 8x more expensive.

By: rbpasker

rbpasker — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:25:31 +0000

I did due diligence on JBOSS for one of their investors, and JBOSS claimed at the time that were cash-flow positive.

By: Chris Neumann

Chris Neumann — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:04:12 +0000

Cool post. I really enjoy the inside stories on stuff like this. Question: at that low price, was JBoss losing money and burning VC capital, or were they still making money, just not getting super rich? IOW, was the market size sufficiently large to support JBoss selling their app server for cheap and still do OK given the development and maintenance costs to keep it going?